Adjunct Teaching - Counseling Psychology & Special Ed - CPSE 647: Psychometrics and Intelligence

Graduate degree in School Psychology, Clinical Psychology, or Counseling Psychology. Licensed psychologists strongly preferred.

The required degree must be completed before the position start date.

• Minimum of 3 years of professional experience conducting psychoeducational or psychological assessment with children and adolescents, preferably in school or educational settings. Assessment experience with adults is also required. 
• Experience administering, scoring, interpreting, and communicating results from standardized cognitive, academic, and adaptive behavior assessments. Experience with neuropsychological assessment of autism and ADHD is also required. 

• Experience writing clear, integrated, and legally defensible comprehensive psychoeducational assessment reports and making educational and other support recommendations. 

• Knowledge of psychometric principles, test validity and reliability, culturally responsive assessment, and ethical and legal standards for assessment. 

• Previous experience teaching graduate students. 

The successful candidate will:

• Teach CPSE 647 in person, Mondays 8am to 11:50am, during Winter Semester, January 6-April 14, 2027, with finals week until April 21, 2027.

• Prepare graduate students to understand foundational psychometric concepts and the theory underlying cognitive, academic, adaptive behavior, and some neuropsychological assessment.

• Teach and evaluate student competencies in standardized test administration, scoring, interpretation, and synthesis of assessment findings, conclusions, and recommendations.

• Teach students to integrate test scores with background information, interviews, behavioral observations, and other data in written comprehensive psychoeducational reports.

• Promote culturally responsive, ethical, legally defensible, and strengths-based assessment practices, including clear communication of findings to families, educators, students or clients, and other professionals.

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